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[Fox]

It could be a hybrid, The barring is odd.

Have you got any more pics?

[Mattymak]

I had a similar sort of thing when I bought an 'electric blue' from Malaga, not
Uncommon in peacocks I guess

[scottyhooton]

Looks like an aulonocara Stuartgranti of some sort prolly Chilumba or cobue

[Redevilz]

I'm pretty sure it's a blue peacock.

[Hypanheaven]

some peacock or a venustus x blue haha

[ronaldskitz]

taiwan reef without the orange???? very similar fin shape and what not

[Furnix]

Looks like an aulonocara Stuartgranti of some sort prolly Chilumba or cobue

i was thinking the same thing!

they get the colour on their head first so he might still be juivie and not fully coloured yet.

[aussiem01]

Try maisoni

[Buccal]

You all may think Im a know it all. But definetely a marble peacock throw back. When breeding marble peacocks you will get roughly 20% of fry that turn out like this blue fish. Also breeding dragonbloods this same percentage occurs having blue fish but with a red flush behind the gill plates. These fish in turn are sold as blue peacocks. So you have a blue peacock. Essentially Aulonocara.

[Pat]

I think you know plenty and don't neccessarily toe the party line which is refreshing. I enjoy your posts and find them very informative. You call it how you see it based on lots of experience and there should be more of it. I have no idea what the hell that fish is but if I was a betting man I would be going with a Blue Peacock.

I have a trio of tangerine peacocks that produce roughly 80% tangerine peacocks with a few stripey brown types that duely get fed to my Murray Cod after a bit of fattening!! (Don't get a chance to colour.)
I assume this is a similar thing.

Edited by Pat, 11 September 2012 - 10:24 PM.

[Buccal]

Yep, there the ones. Some of the blue peacocks can actually differ from each other when matured. Some can have longer noses or fins, and some can have yellow tinges or a light blue strip on top of the head or just on the dorsal only. When they fully mature, the blues are intense.

[jase87]

Very nice colours, its so difficult to say, it could be just a random blue peacock with an interesting pattern. But for some reason im thinking hybrid Taiwan Reef X Venustus ...
who would no with the way peacocks and other Malawis are now days, nothing looks like the wild caught originals

[Furnix]

His bar's look more uniform now more like a normal peacock

[Buccal]

Dragon bloods and marble peacocks are derived from normal alounocara(peacocks). Man has taken a variety of pure form peacock and crossed them to form the dragon bloods and marbles. Within the genetics a percentage of throwback meaning some turn out close to the original form they use to be, a peacock. I literally have hundreds of these, exactly like that. In fact, it's 80% chance I actually bred that particular fish. Wait till it hits 14-15cm, intense blue, nose becomes a bit pointier, and some form a little fleshy bump on the forehead.
There are actual recordings of crossing in nature and marble and dragon blood actually being present in small populations as a naturally occurring hybrid.